This show is a dichotomy! On the one hand it is a somewhat entertaining action mini-movie with good characters. That is the main reason that I will watch it.

But on the other hand, it is the most unbelievably stupid police show I've ever seen. One thing in this episode really stands out. When they find the dead bodies at that house they were able to figure out that the bad guys were going to take the place of the clean up workers going into the bombed out police building and steal something from the evidence room. So the 5-0 team gets into their cars with sirens screaming and races to the police building to tell them that there are bad guys impersonating the clean up crew. WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST RADIO OR CALL THE POLICE ALREADY AT THE POLICE BUILDING AND HAVE THEM GO IN RIGHT AWAY!! Incredibly stupid!!! When the 5-0 team gets there the bad guys are already in the building. If they had called the regular police they would have been able to go in much earlier than the 5-0 team.

And to keep on in the same stupid theme, when they discover the bad guys have already been to the evidence room and are gone, again INSTEAD OF USING THE RADIO TO CALL SOMEONE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING, they run to the loading dock and the bad guys are already gone!!!!!

Anyway, for now I'll still keep watching, but there are times I'm yelling at the TV because they are so STUPID!!!

Gerry

P. S. Thumbs up to Christine Lahti as I haven't seen her in a long time and she really looked quite good!!

This was the worst episode of the series. It was also very disappointing season premiere for a show I was looking forward to.

I asked the very questions the OP did about using the darn radios to alert the other cops.

Also, the scene with the helicopter to take the armored car was stupid too. My wife immediately said the H50 had jumped the shark. I was surprised they didn't show the shark with the divers. I immediately called it that there were divers waiting.

Why couldn't they have just set the truck down on the deck of a cargo ship and skip the whole diver scene? Because they wanted the whole James Bond vibe!

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The level of intentional stupidity in this episode was staggering. In addition to the lack of calls mentioned above, how about using the radio to tell Steve and Mom that Wo Fat has escaped, so they can NOT land and tell everyone who she is?

How to fix 5.0? Have Grace Park in a string bikini every week. Always show great landscapes. Make the writing more believable and less like superman. Have a foot chase along a crowded beach every week. Make 5.0 part of the police department instead of some kind of elite military force. (I have this same problem with Flashpoint) Focus a lot less on the ongoing wofat character and more along solve the crime of the week. Car chases are good, stop unrealistic long range shooting with a pistol. Stop running off to foreign countries.

But really, in most cop shows aren't the stars always racing across town to get the bad guy where you would expect someone patrolling in the area to get there way quicker? It just emphasizes it when they're headed to the police station.

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I went back and watched the original Ed Asner episode when I heard this series was doing a pseudo sequel to it and it was not only badly done, it was intolerably boring... something this show is not.

Worst of all, no Grace Park in the original!

So you saw one episode, didn't even watch it properly, were turned off by it because it wasn't flashy and full of violence, and label the entire series as boring? Maybe if you paid attention, the original would not have been boring. Grace Park was a child when the original was on, so she could not have been a part of the team, unless you expected her to busting pint-sized crayon thieves.

You're expecting gun fights, explosions, car chases, and hot women right and left? That's going to get old, fast, and not make sense in every storyline, and it will make the show boring and predictable. The original was a police procedural that focused on the crimes and how they were committed, not on flashy violence. Maybe you like those things and are entertained by them, but they don't make a show interesting in the long run. The original Five-O was based on crime-solving, and the detectives using their intellect and abilities to do so. Complaining that there is no Grace Park says that's the main reason you watch this show, and not for her acting.